[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

[Aaron Rubin]

Wow, Aahz.  I can't believe how applicable your own signature quote is! :P

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > Aahz:
> >>
> >> Could you explain why you have so much emotion invested in this issue?
> >
> > I'm mostly having light-hearted fun with it.  The conversation wasn't
> > going anywhere from the start.  I do find it funny that so many
> > think 80 is exactly the right number regardless of other whitespace
> > conventions or regardless of the language being used.
>
> If that's what you think people are saying, I don't think you are using
> sufficient care in your reading.  It seems to me that people are mostly
> saying that eighty columns is enough for many purposes, there are
> problems that would come from increasing the number of columns, and there
> aren't any solid arguments that clearly demonstrate that the gains
> outweigh the detriments.
>
> My take is that the people who claim that we would be having this exact
> conversation if the standard were 100 characters are precisely correct.
> There will always be people pushing longer lines, and there needs to be
> better argumentation before we abandon the current standard.
> --
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